The National Archives UK - CO
1896 Kumasi, Ghana
This 1896 photograph, held in the UK National Archives' colonial file series CO 1069, documents a scene in Kumasi, the Ashanti capital in present-day Ghana, during the period of British colonial expansion into the Gold Coast interior.
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